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Hempstead, New York – 17 June 2025
1. Wide of graduation practice
2. Twins at graduation practice
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3. SOUNDBITE (English) Heather Dvorak, Plainview-Old Bethpage John F. Kennedy High School Principal:
“So I’m here with the Plainview-Old Bethpage John F. Kennedy High School class of 2025. We have 445 graduates and within that group is 15 sets of twins…there’s gotta be something in the water.”
4. Fifteen sets of graduating twins
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Joshua Lipetz, Graduating Twin:
“Fifteen total sets of twins, so it’s pretty crazy knowing that there’s so many people in our situation.”
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Sydney Monka, Graduating Twin:
“We all get very excited when we’re together, and I think, you know, we get together and it’s like, whoa, whoa. We’re all bouncing off each other.”
7. Twins gathered together
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Amanda Brake, Graduating Twin:
“So it’s good to have a community of people that I can talk to and relate to about all my twin problems.”
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Sydney Jasser, Graduating Twin:
“We all have like struggled with people not being able to tell us apart.”
SOUNDBITE (English) Kayla Jasser, Graduating Twin:
“Especially us.”
SOUNDBITE (English) Sydney Jasser, Graduating Twin:
“Especially us because we are the same gender. A lot of people when we talk about them they say we are the ones that look the most alike.”
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Amanda Brake, Graduating Twin:
“Sharing clothes is the big one. She steals all my clothes all the time.”
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Rebecca Lipetz, Graduating Twin:
“Even though it’s competitive it’s a very different type of competition when you’re the same gender so I am grateful this is the way it happened.”
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Sydney Monka, Graduating Twin:
“I kind of like to say that we are like the same person, different fonts.”
12. Various of twins Arianna and Julianna Cammareri
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13. SOUNDBITE (English) Arianna Cammareri, Graduating Twin:
“There’s a few twins in our family…like I guess that raised chances of having twins…a lot of the moms here just knew they wanted to go from like more of a city place like suburban and like so Plainview was a good place, you know…and like a lotta the twins are actually friends because their mom’s the same idea I guess….I’m really proud of all of us. Like we know that we all did it together. We were always by each other’s sides.”
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Vandita Singh, Graduating Twin:
“We’ve grown up in this town, like since third grade, so it’s just a normal for us.”
15. Students at graduation rehearsal
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Alison Perrin, Graduating Twin:
“We’re going to different colleges so, I mean, I’m kind of ready. We’ve been together since we were born, and we live in very close proximity, so I’m excited to be on my own.”
SOUNDBITE (English) Samantha Perrin, Graduating Twin:
“Me too.”
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Emma Heaney, Graduating Twin:
“This is such a crazy thing, because this is such a big milestone. Like this is the last time we’ll be walking across the same stage together being in the same place at the same time.”
18. Twins Kayla and Emma Leibowitz at graduation rehearsal
STORYLINE:
One high school in the suburbs of New York City will be seeing double on graduation day this weekend as 15 sets of twins prepare to graduate in the Class of 2025.
Save for the shared last names, though, the pairs may be hard to spot as they walk the stage Sunday at Hofstra University in Hempstead.
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